The messengers went out to Esau and then returned to Jacob with a troubling report. Messengers: We went to your brother Esau and gave him your message. He is coming to meet you, but 400 men are with him.

And the messengers turned again to Jacob, and said, We came to Esau, thy brother, and lo! he hasteth him into thy coming, with four hundred men. (And the messengers returned to Jacob, and said, We came to thy brother Esau, and told him your message, and lo! now he hasteneth himself to come to meet thee, with four hundred men.)

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